Improvement in chair-seats



GEQRGE'GARDNER.

Improvement in Chair-Seats'.

Patented May`21,1872. 4

UNITED STATES PATENT DEE/LCE GEORGE GARDNER, OF GLEN GARDNER, NEWJERSEY, ASSIGNOR OF TWO- THIRDS OF HIS vRIGHT TO GARDNER St GARDNER.

1 IMPROVEMENT IN CHAIR-SEATS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 127,044, dated May 2l,1872.

Specification of GEORGE GARDNER, of Glen Gardner, in the county ofHunterdon and State of New Jersey, for lImprovement in Chair- Seats.

This invention relates to an improved seat for chairs, 85o.; and itconsists of layers of veneerin g, each alternate one of which has itsgrain running in an opposite direction to that of the intermediate one,in combination with one or more layers of textile or fibrous material,substantially as hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed.

Figure l, in the annexed drawing, illustrates a plan view of my improvedchair-seat with a part of the upper or top layer of veneer-ing brokenaway, exhibiting a layer of canvas or other textile' material, and aportion of said canvas removed: showing a second layer of veneering withits grain running in a contrary direction to that-of the said top layer;and Fig. 2 represents `a longitudinal vertical section of the same.

Like parts in the two gures are designated by similar letters.

To enable others to make and use my invention I will proceed to describeit.

In the accompanying drawing I show three layers of veneering, A B C, anda single layer of canvas, E, which are glued together and secured Withinthe frame D.

,In practice the layers of veneerin g and cang vas may be increased innumber, ifdesiredz An improved seat, consisting of layers ot' veneering, the 'grains of which run in opposite directions, in combination withone or more layers of textile material, substantially as herein shownand described.

In testimony whereof I havehereunto signed my name this 15th day ofJanuary, 187.2, in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEO. GARDNER.

Witnesses:

PHILIP G. VRooM, JOSEPH H. GARDNER.

